I am seeing George right now. I usually don't pay much attention to ads but this one is getting on my nerves. Ads for cell phones, books, retirement communities I can take but I'd rather do without annoying cr@p like that. Time to switch to Firefox and load it with an ad blocker.

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+1 to FireFox/AdBlock Plus (and NoScript). When I use IE it's kind of jarring to suddenly see the clutter and distraction of ads. It's like advertising on television. For all our lives we've been used to our shows being interrupted by blaring commercials, but after avoiding "live" television in favor of Netflix for a couple of years, DW & I are surprised to find television almost unwatchable because of the annoyance of commercials inserted in the middle of the show.

I realize that many web sites depend on advertising revenue, so I have mixed feelings about the use of AdBlock Plus. I have disabled it on a few sites for that reason.

I realize that many web sites depend on advertising revenue, so I have mixed feelings about the use of AdBlock Plus. I have disabled it on a few sites for that reason.

Agreed. When there are sites that I want to support and such, I will leave ads on and even occasionally click through. But that requires that the ads not be obnoxious or too intrusive. Garden-variety banner ads are something I could usually take. But the political ones irritate the crap out of me (in the general case) and normally I'd want to block ads on a site that has them. But I feel at least some obligation to not do so here.

__________________"Hey, for every ten dollars, that's another hour that I have to be in the work place. That's an hour of my life. And my life is a very finite thing. I have only 'x' number of hours left before I'm dead. So how do I want to use these hours of my life? Do I want to use them just spending it on more crap and more stuff, or do I want to start getting a handle on it and using my life more intelligently?"-- Joe Dominguez (1938 - 1997)

It is clear that Google has some software that is capable of parsing my posts. I have never seen a liberal oriented political ad. Mostly I am encouraged to hate George Soros, which seems a little off topic even for a committed social conservative. When I posted "Who's your Daddy?" I started seeing ads for dating young women.

I really should break down and get Firefox, but then I wouldn't have this insight into my web image.

Ha

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It is clear that Google has some software that is capable of parsing my posts. I have never seen a liberal oriented political ad. Mostly I am encouraged to hate George Soros, which seems a little off topic even for a committed social conservative. When I posted "Who's your Daddy?" I started seeing ads for dating young women.

I really should break down and get Firefox, but then I wouldn't have this insight into my web image.

Ha

Ha, not to disount your hypothesis, but I am seeing dancing heads of Soros, Pelosi, Reid and Michael Moore. But then again, maybe the mods are doing it just to antagonize me?

It is clear that Google has some software that is capable of parsing my posts. I have never seen a liberal oriented political ad. Mostly I am encouraged to hate George Soros, which seems a little off topic even for a committed social conservative. When I posted "Who's your Daddy?" I started seeing ads for dating young women.

I really should break down and get Firefox, but then I wouldn't have this insight into my web image.

You might notice in the above link all the activity tracking that is done. For fun and profit I presume. Each time anyone posts a message that message is analyzed for content and ads are tailored based on content. YMMV.

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You might notice in the above link all the activity tracking that is done. For fun and profit I presume. Each time anyone posts a message that message is analyzed for content and ads are tailored based on content. YMMV.

No, my mileage does not vary at all from that. That is exactly what i figured had to be happening, from looking at the ads I see.

Ha

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So now one besides me is seeing the IE 8 ad with the strange extra mouse pointer? First time I ran my mouse across it I wondered if my wheaties had been laced with something odd?

I'm seeing the IE8 ad also.
Can we be bad children and put some out of context words here as bait to see what ads pop up? No 4 letter words of course , just silly stuff like kangaroo, pregnancy, aardvark, Metamucil, diarrhea, Mickey Mouse, locusts, etc etc
Real time update - This post just caused my ad to change from IE8 to Showboat Mardis Gras Casino. Now which keyword caused that change? Aardvark or locusts?

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